Build and maintain testing tooling, frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines for a TypeScript codebase. Improve test speed and reliability using smart test selection, parallelization, mocking, isolated test environments, monitoring, and observability. Collaborate with engineering teams to establish testing standards, reusable fixtures, and documentation supporting secure, reliable financial services deployments.
Company Description
Farther is a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology - delivering a comprehensive, tailored wealth management experience.
Farther’s founders are leaders and innovators from the private wealth industry who possess a unique blend of traditional wealth management, fintech, and technology production expertise. We’re backed by top-tier venture capital firms, fintech investors, and industry leaders.
Joining Farther means joining a collaborative team of entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping their clients and our teammates achieve more. If you’re the type who breaks through walls to get things done the right way, we want to build the future of wealth management with you.
We're looking for a Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure (SETI) to help build the systems that keep our TypeScript codebase fast to test, easy to trust, and safe to ship. You'll focus on designing tools, frameworks, and pipelines that elevate the productivity and confidence of engineers working across both frontend and backend systems. You'll build infrastructure that scales with our growing team, promotes engineering best practices, and catches problems before they reach production. You'll work closely with engineering teams across the organization to ensure our testing ecosystem supports rapid development while maintaining the high reliability and security standards required in financial services.
Your Impact- Design, build, and maintain robust tooling and testing infrastructure to support engineering workflows across our frontend and backend systems. Create comprehensive automation frameworks for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, leveraging tools like Jest, Playwright, Vitest, and Cypress
- Build intelligent CI/CD pipelines that run tests efficiently through advanced techniques like file-change tracking, smart test selection, and parallelization strategies
- Develop sophisticated utilities for mocking APIs, stubbing external services, and spinning up isolated testing environments that mirror production conditions
- Monitor test reliability and performance metrics to continuously drive improvements in feedback speed and signal quality across all engineering teams
- Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure code is testable, traceable, and properly instrumented to build confidence in our deployments
- Create comprehensive documentation and onboard teams to best practices in test architecture and optimized developer workflows
- Drive key technical decisions for testing infrastructure that supports our critical trading systems and portfolio management platform
- Establish testing standards and architectural patterns that enable rapid, confident product development across all our wealth management offerings
- Partner with backend teams to build reusable test fixtures and data factories for complex financial workflows and regulatory scenarios
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on testing infrastructure, developer tooling, or platform engineering
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern testing frameworks (Jest, Vitest, Cypress, Playwright)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (CDK, Datadog, Terraform, or similar)
- Solid understanding of test automation patterns, mocking strategies, and test environment management
- AWS Infra & Deployment experience
- Experience with containerization and orchestration for test environments
- Knowledge of database testing strategies and test data management
- Strong foundation in software engineering principles and system design
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools for test infrastructure
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex testing issues
- Strong written communication skills and documentation practices
- Experience with financial services or regulated industry testing requirements
- Knowledge of property-based testing and fuzzing techniques
- Experience with distributed testing and load testing frameworks
- Familiarity with Scala or Python testing ecosystems
- Background in building developer productivity tools
- Experience with test reporting and analytics platforms
- Knowledge of security testing and compliance validation
- Everything you need to build the perfect dev station from hardware to software
- Learn & grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
- Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options
- Unlimited PTO
- An amazing collaborative atmosphere between product, design, and engineering to solve hard problems together
Farther New York, New York, USA Office
4 World Trade Center, New York, NY, United States, 10007
Similar Jobs
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Lead Finance Data & Analytics to build trusted data sources, governance, and analytics for Finance and cross-functional stakeholders. Manage analysts, drive data strategy and Snowflake data models, produce insights via SQL and Tableau, and deploy AI solutions to optimize finance decision-making and operations.
Top Skills:
AICoupaNetSuiteSalesforceServicenowSnowflakeSQLTableau
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Design and implement core features for a lightweight macOS security sensor, collaborate cross-platform with teams, own feature lifecycle from design through delivery, debug low-level memory and performance issues, and mentor distributed engineers while aligning sensor architecture with broader Falcon Host strategy.
Top Skills:
AgileCC++LinuxmacOSSecurity FrameworksSwiftWindows
Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Insurance • Software
Lead a team of Technical Solutions Engineers to triage, diagnose, and resolve production issues across Bestow's platform. Own support queue, incident command, SLAs, runbooks, automation, observability, and partner escalation while contributing ~20% production-level code and converting recurring issues into funded roadmap work.
Top Skills:
ApmAsync MessagingBigQueryGenai Developer ToolsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrpcIncident.IoKubernetesMicroservicesOpenapiPagerdutyPostgresProtocol BuffersPythonRelational DatabaseRestSession ReplaySQLStructured LoggingSwaggerTypescript
What you need to know about the NYC Tech Scene
As the undisputed financial capital of the world, New York City is an epicenter of startup funding activity. The city has a thriving fintech scene and is a major player in verticals ranging from AI to biotech, cybersecurity and digital media. It also has universities like NYU, Columbia and Cornell Tech attracting students and researchers from across the globe, providing the ecosystem with a constant influx of world-class talent. And its East Coast location and three international airports make it a perfect spot for European companies establishing a foothold in the United States.
Key Facts About NYC Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 549,200; 6% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Capgemini, Bloomberg, IBM, Spotify
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, Fintech
- Funding Landscape: $25.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Greycroft, Thrive Capital, Union Square Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Tiger Global Management, Tribeca Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Two Sigma Ventures
- Research Centers and Universities: Columbia University, New York University, Fordham University, CUNY, AI Now Institute, Flatiron Institute, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, NASA Space Radiation Laboratory
